Shooter arrested in Orlando office rampage 1
Woman killed for selling rock salt as dope 2
Lazy police let a serial killer run free 3
By Pete Kotz in assault, bizarre, homicide
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 4:27PM
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Noor Faleh Almaleki went into a coma and never recovered
UPDATE: A mysterious fire was started at the Almaleki home this morning. See update after the jump...

Noor Faleh Almaleki, who was ran over by her dad in an attempted honor killing in Arizona last month, is dead. The attack happened October 20 when Faleh Hassan Almaleki ran her and her boyfriend's mother over with his truck in a state government parking lot.

While the other woman survived, Noor underwent spinal surgery after the attack. She fell into a coma and never recovered, dying at age 20...

Tags: Arizona
By Pete Kotz in arson, assault, homicide, kidnapping, unsolved
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 3:04PM

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23-year-old Carol Thomas was found in a burned out car in a farmer's field
UPDATE: Carol Thomas was murdered because she sold rock salt as dope. See update after the jump...

A former boyfriend said 23-year-old Carol Thomas planned to get a ride to visit him in Kansas City Wednesday night. But according to police, witnesses saw her attacked by at least three people, then stuffed in the trunk of a red Pontiac Grand Am.

When police arrived, Carol was gone. But they did find a stun gun at the scene. Today, they found Carol.

A farmer saw a car leaving a field Wednesday night and called police. A search today turned up a burned out car and a body that apparently matches Carol's...

Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 11:05AM

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Police found 11 decaying bodies in Anthony Sowell's indoor graveyard
UPDATE: Could Anthony Sowell also be responsible for the Strawberry Murders in the late 1980s? See update after the jump...

Fawcett Bess owns Bess Chicken and Pizza, across the street from the home of Anthony Sowell. This is where police found the bodies of 11 women -- left in the attic, stuffed in crawl spaces, and buried in his backyard. This is also where Cleveland police were called to at least five times in the weeks and months leading up to the discovery. But they did almost no investigation.

Bess recalls an incident two weeks before police discovered the bodies. He found a naked Sowell standing in the bushes next to his house. On the ground was a naked woman bloodied and beaten. Bess called 911 and an ambulance took the woman away. But police didn't arrive until two hours later -- and never bothered to interview him...

By Denise Grollmus in cold cases, homicide, robbery
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 8:00AM
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Calvin "Hook" McWilliams was recently picked-up for the 1992 murder of Edward Davis
Edward Davis had three daughters and one more on the way, though he didn't know it -- and never would. 

On May 22, 1992, a man knocked on the door of Davis' Detroit home while he was eating dinner with his family. The man demanded that Davis give him money. Davis refused. As Davis tried to close the door, the man reached through a tear in the screen door and shot him dead. He was 20-years-old at the time... 

Tags: Michigan
By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Mass Murder, homicide, unsolved
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 12:03AM
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Early reports say Major Malik Nadal Hasan was among the shooters
UPDATE: Shooter Nidal Malik Hasan was reportedly against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. See update after the jump...

Three soldiers went on a shooting rampage this afternoon at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. Initial reports say that at least a dozen are dead, with more than 30 others wounded.

So far, there's been no motive released in the case, but at least two soldiers have been arrested. The principal shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, is believed to have been killed. He's said to be a psychiatrist who was promoted to major only a few months ago, but was pissed about an upcoming deployment to Iraq.

Witnesses say they saw more than one shooter in the attack that took place about 1:30 p.m. at the Soldier Readiness Center, where servicemen get medical screening before being sent overseas...

Tags: Army, Texas
Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 2:34PM
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Victoria Gotti screamed that the judge was rigging her son's trial
Victoria Gotti, the wife of late Gambino Family boss John Gotti, apparently doesn't like the way Judge Kevin Castel is handling her son John Jr's trial for racketeering and murder. Yesterday, Castel banished two jurors involved in a cat fight, at least one of whom was perceived as favorable to the defense.

That caused Mrs. Gotti to go ape shit. She stood in the gallery behind her son and began screaming at Castel: "This is a fucking railroad! There's no justice!"

Daughter Victoria and Angel tried to cover mom's mouth, but she kept screaming. "They're the real gangsters!" she yelled, pointing at prosecutors and the judge. "They're fucking liars! Fuck you...!"

Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 1:13PM

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Alex went missing on Friday, and was found in the dryer the next day
UPDATE: Raul Renato Castro killed the boy because he worried he'd tell about being molested. See update after the jump...

When 4-year-old Alex Christopher Mercado went missing Friday in Mendota, California, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department began an immediate search. But it didn't bring a happy ending the next day.

He was found stuffed in the dryer at a home where his babysitter lives next door. Alex had been killed and then hid in the dryer, police say. A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion on murder...

Tags: California
Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 11:20AM
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Sharon left for ballet lessons and was never seen again alive

It was 27 years ago that 16-year-old Sharon Thor was slain after preparing to leave her home in Franklin Township, New Jersey, for one of her twice-weekly ballet lessons.  When she left at 5:30 p.m. on October 26, 1982, she was never seen again alive.

Prior to leaving home that evening, Sharon received a telephone call and appeared to be pleased to hear from the caller. The conversation was brief, but it was obvious that she had wanted her privacy with the caller -- she took the corded phone as far as it would reach, to the stairway that led to the cellar, so that her parents could not hear...

Tags: New Jersey
Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 9:00AM
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What's Dr. David Goroway, a millionaire chiropractor, doing involved with all of this?
Tasty Breakfast Reading for your Thursday morning, served piping hot from our reporters around the Village Voice Empire.

Backbreaker
Machine-gun blasts, a half-kilo of blow, and a millionaire chiropractor. WTF?

The Creepy Teacher
Kansas coach poses as 19-year-old girl on Facebook to swap naked pics with young boys.

Raising Money for a Doctor Killer
eBay yanks auctions to raise money for Scott Roeder, accused of killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller in his church.



By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Mass Murder, homicide
Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 7:56AM
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Instead of just killing himself, Billy Maxwell Jr. slaughtered his entire family
Reader "Jadensmokes" responds to William Maxwell Jr. Home: Four People Found Shot to Death in Upscale Fayetteville.

"I think these men that kill their family and then themself are all mentally ill. how can anyone justify taking the lives of the people closest to them because they can't deal with life? cowards commit suicide, and ass hole cowards take their family with them when they do."